I have 208 430Cabriolet, 2002, with 26k miles. Completely stock. Lately, whenever I drive aggressively in and out of turns, the car is bouncing a little after the apex as I come out. This happens whether I am accelerating out of the turn or not. This is a new phenomenon and I do not like it.

Any ideas/comments on what's going on, and what I am looking at fixing.

I noticed the same thing when I would be on an on ramp or off ramp, and hit a bump or an expansion joint or something, and the car would jump off line. I got a 4 wheel alignment/ tire pressure/ wheel balance....and the jump was gone. Have you had the suspension setup checked recently?

Had an alignment and balancing about 1500 miles ago. No suspension check though. Will have that done.

Thansk for the input

That happened with mine to i replaced my shocks and struts and it went away they told me that my front shocks were blown.

glad someone brought this up cause I didnt think it was a problem - i just thought it was because i was pushing the car to hard around corners...

looks like i have something else to check out

OP had 26K miles. How many were on yours when the shocks/struts were replaced?

Is this normal? Possible worn shocks after 26k miles?!?

It was about 70k but it could be a unknown factory problem with the shocks cause I don't think they shouldn't have really gone out then either. I thought it was because I had the AMG kit but not the AMG suspension. So I replaced the shocks and springs and now it hits bumps on corners like it should.

I didnt think it was a problem either until one day i was going around a corner on the highway a little faster then normal and hit a small bump i thought i was going to lose control of the car that was not cool so i immediatly had it replaced with sport shocks and springs and now in back in the fast lane

What did the sport shock and struts run you? Did you get it done at the stealership?

could it be the steering dampener?

If i remember correctly they were 3 or 400 at autozone, and i had a friend that works at a shop put them on for 200.I think its an hour and a half for labor.

And i have HR springs that were fairly cheap to, Eibach's are discontinued i think.